Puss in Boots or How to Play the Game
Puss in Boots or How to Play the Game is a comedy by Tankred Dorst based on Ludwig Tiecks Puss in Boots , which premiered on December 18, 1964 under the direction of Hans Lietzau at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Following the new version in 1978, the author remembers just about the history of the production; highlights, for example, the difficulties in staging his first film at the Lübeck Theater around 1960 .
overview
Actually, Grimm's children 's fairy tale “ Puss in Boots ” is merely re-enacted. All relevant events in that kingdom, which is well known from childhood, are easily recognizable in their sequence - except for insignificant little things. Three of the small deviations: the king likes to eat rabbits so much and the great magician is called moguls . This dwarfed, ugly villain is consumed as a rat by the tomcat Hinze this time.
A remarkable feature is hidden in the subtitle. The audience - all paying citizens without a backbone - play along. Their displeasure, their undisguised indignation compel the poet and a soothing agent he had appointed to stand on the ramp. Either of them can smooth things over with great difficulty. Sometimes the rejection of the honored audience turns into applause.
Two gentlemen at court are given a dual role by Dorst. The wise court scholar still plays the dramaturge Dr. Schulze-Reimpell and Hans Wurst the theater critic Bratfisch. The latter and Hinze are the only figures with a backbone. Both profile themselves as social critics of the current kingdom: the king is a fool, his ministers are all zeros and the princess is a stupid goose. The kingdom is rotting away. The king should be abolished.
Examples of the relaxed, light tone: When Hinze pretends to be Count Carabas for Count Carabas and lets him jump naked into the pond, the king helps out with clothing and comments: “This is the Count, I recognize him my clothes. ”And the princess - hitherto always dismissive of noble suitors - is finally going on the offensive; asks Gottlieb: "... don't you want to kiss me?" Mr. Bratfisch is closely watched by the insecure audience during the performance. When he grimaces in an ambiguous passage, it turns out that he has a toothache. And the oriental prince speaks an idiosyncratic mirror language. Dorst simply inverted every word. But after the Oriental was turned away by the initially snappy princess, he suddenly started speaking the right way around: "Kiss my ass." The king, slightly disturbed by this, said for the moment that he had unexpectedly found access to that difficult-to-understand mirror language.
Adaptations
- May 15, 1975: Puss In Boots or How to Play the Game . Comic opera in two acts. Music: Günter Bialas , libretto: Tankred Dorst, director: Günther Rennert . Ensemble of the Hamburg State Opera at the Schwetzingen Festival .
literature
- Ludwig Tieck and Tankred Dorst: Puss in Boots or How to Play the Game. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1963. Collection Theater. Texts 15. 75 pages, without ISBN.
Used edition
- The hangover or how to play the game (after Ludwig Tieck). Pp. 7–70 in Tankred Dorst. Early pieces. Work edition 3 (content: The cat or how to play the game. Society in autumn . The curve . Big diatribe on the city wall . Rameau's nephew . The Mohrin . The judge of London ) Suhrkamp Verlag 1986 (1st edition), ISBN 3 -518-03009-4 , 404 pages. Between pages 26–69 there are stage photos of the Hamburg premiere (photographer: Rosemarie Clausen ) and a Berlin performance in 1978 (director: Jaroslav Chundela ) at the German State Opera (photographer: Hella Köppel).
Secondary literature
- Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.): Text + criticism Issue 145: Tankred Dorst . Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich, January 2000, ISBN 3-88377-626-2
- Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of world literature . German Authors A-Z . Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-520-83704-8 , p. 126, left column
Web links
- Dorst's template: Tiecks Text
- theatertexte.de
- May 1998 City Theater Ratingen
Individual evidence
- ^ Günther Erken bei Arnold, p. 85, right column, 3rd entry vu
- ↑ Tankred Dorst's personal report in the edition used, p. 70
- ^ Arnold, p. 99, penultimate entry: Werner Schulze-Reimpell , geb. 1931, theater scholar
- ↑ Edition used, p. 61, 4th Zvu
- ↑ Edition used, p. 63, 15. Zvo
- ↑ Edition used, p. 50, 17th Zvu
- ↑ Edition used, p. 23, 9. Zvo
- ↑ Edition used, p. 69 below
- ↑ Entry at operone.de